Graduation Card

I made this card for a friend's graduation from the PSW course. I'm very proud of her for going back to school and getting her certificate. I cased the idea from this wonderful card on SCS. TFL

Birthday - 10 year old boy.

My son needed a card for his friend's 10th birthday. Gotta love the CB folders for a quick and easy card! I embossed Core'dinations black magic cs and then sanded the raised edges. The oval is raised off the page with 3D foam squares.

Dry Embossing on Vellum

Trying some different things I haven't done in awhile. This time - dry embossing on vellum using a brass stencil I got in the dollar store. There is an embossed rectangle around the roses but it doesn't show up very well because the colours are so light.

Masculine Birthday - Easel Card

My second easel card. These are so easy and fun to make. Made this for my fil.

Father's Day #3

Of course I had to make a card for my hubby who happens to be the best father in the world! This is my first time making a card with the grunge technique. I've distressed the edges on cards before, but not quite to this extent. I'm pretty happy with the results which means I will probably be trying this technique again sometime.

Father's Day #2

This Father's Day card will go to my father-in-law. I used pencil crayons and gamsol, as well as chalk to colour the image. This image is from the Lovely As a Tree set from SU and comes in very handy for masculine cards. The white cs in the bg has been embossed with a plaid stripe pattern, but doesn't show up too well in the picture.

Father's Day #1

This is a clean and simple Father's Day card that I made for my Dad. A couple of stamps and 3 layers of cs and voila...done!

Wedding Card

I was asked to make a wedding card for someone and have decided to make several for her to choose from. This is the second one so far, but I'm sure there will be a few more to come! The roses were coloured using pencil crayons and gamsol. I finished the blooms off with a fine white glitter.

This post and the last couple of days were all scheduled posts so that I have a new post every day for awhile. I've still got 3 Father's Day cards to post over the next 3 days, so stay tuned!

More Roses

I don't know why, but for some reason I am really enjoying making clean and simple cards lately. I coloured the image on this card with pencil crayons and gamsol, then finished it off with fine pink glitter. Aren't sparkles just the perfect finishing touch?

Smoosh Technique

I've been trying a couple of different techniques, and for this card I attempted the Smoosh Technique. I cut an oval out of white cs, then cut another oval the same size out of a transparency. I stamped the roses on the transparency with permanent ink. Once dry, I smeared the white oval with diamond stickles and placed the transparency over it smooshing the stickles! The diamond stickles is very sparkly under the transparency and unlike glitter, you don't have to worry about it flaking off. I completed it by matting it and gluing the silver cording around the edge. TFL!

Rose Tutorial

This picture shows the supplies I used. You can use any flower shaped punch or die cut similar to mine. If you have 3 different sizes it's easier, but I only had two. You could probably even get away with just one, and cut the edges to make the flowers 3 different sizes. I'm using a small dollar store punch, but you can make them whatever size your punches are. I showed the big pink punch because I used it to punch my smallest flower.
This picture shows how many flowers I punched and the sizes. As you can see, because I only had 2 different sized punches I used my scissors to cut the edges to make the one flower slightly smaller than the 2 bigger ones. The next step was to ink the edges. I inked both sides so the pink can be seen when the petals are bent up.

Then I bent the petals up on each one. The smaller the flower, the more I bent the petals up. You can see how the smallest flower looks pretty crumpled in.

The final step is to assemble and glue the flowers starting with the biggest on the bottom and ending with the smallest on top. The pearl is the finishing touch. Re-bend the petals as needed. The picture makes the smallest flower look flat, but it is really quite bent. It must look flat because I took the picture straight on.

As you can see the roses are pretty easy to make. You can use coloured cardstock or just white cardstock and ink it to match the ink on the card. If you have a leaf punch you can add leaves as I did in my card below. I inked them to match as well. I'm guessing if you make a bigger rose, you may need to add an extra layer or two to fill the flower out. The finished size of my flower is only about a 1/2" in diameter.

Clean and Simple Roses!

I continued to have fun making flowers the other night, and decided to try my hand at making a rose. Our town is called the Rose City and we celebrate a Rose Festival in June. That, as well as the fact that my sister's middle name is Rose and her birthday is in June, inspired me to make her this rose birthday card. She is also a cardmaker/scrapbooker so I think she will appreciate the fact that the roses are handmade. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, and really like that it was simple and easy to do. I definitely consider it one of my favourites that I've made lately. TFL

Flowers, Flowers and More Flowers!

The other night I was in the mood to play around with making flowers...can you tell? I used several of the punches I had and just went crazy making as many different kinds of flowers as I could come up with. Then I spent 3 days trying to figure out how to place many of them on a card and this is what I came up with. I really wanted to try it with a monocramatic scheme.

This card was going to be for my sister who is having a birthday soon, but I ended up making another card I liked even more (which I will post tomorrow hopefully). It has flowers, but not nearly as many! I was inspired to make a card using roses since Rose is one of her middle names. Check back in and you'll see a card I can certainly say I'm going to include among my favourites.

Bridal Shower Cards

I don't know about you, but sometimes I just don't like the final results of a card and so I keep on until I get one I'm happy with. I went to a bridal shower recently and made several gift cards because I just wasn't happy with the final results of each one I made. Obviously these are the cards I didn't use, but if you look below you will see the one I finally went with.

Note: The top card actually has an embossed square all the way around, but unfortunately the light in the picture only picked up the line on the top and bottom.

Anniversary - Laura's Sketch 52

My husband and I celebrated our 21st anniversary on Thursday so I made this card for him using Laura's Sketch 52 at 2 Sketches 4 You. I almost forgot to post it in time. The stamps are Studio G and were from a rak I won at Cuppas and Cards. TFL

Card Details: Stamps - Studio G; Ribbon - Offray; Metal corners - dollar store; Spellbinders Circle/Scalloped Nesties; CS - Recollections; Ink - Memories black, Walnut Distress (Tim Holtz).

50th Anniversary Cards

Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge asked us to make a card with a large oval. These two cards are quite similar, but still are quite different. I made them for a friend to choose from to give her parents who are celebrating their 50th anniversary. I think that being together for 50 years is truly something special to celebrate given that nowadays 1/3 marriages ends in divorce. So I tried to make the cards look as special as I could. The cardstock I used is a mix between shiny gold, metalic gold, and metalic ivory. Pearls and roses to me are elegant and timeless so I thought they would be perfect for a 50th anniversary card.

Card Details: Rose Stamp - Judikins, 50th stamp - unknown; Spellbinders Fancy Tags die; Oval Curvy Cutter; MS leaf, Fiskars, and Marvy punches; Kaiser Scrapbook pearls; Bazill and Recollections cs; Versamark ink; and Ranger Fine Gold EB powder.

Bridal Shower

My friend's son is all grown up and getting married, and this past Sunday was the bridal shower for his fiance. I made this card to go with the gift I bought. I like the whole thing, but almost think it would have been fine with just the centre card, especially since it was a gift card. TFL

Card Details: Vellum - HOTP; Punches - Fiskars, Dollar Store, MS Lace Border Punch; Pearls - Recollection; Stamps - Inkadinkado; Ink - Versamark; EB Powder - Ranger Seafoam White.

Centre Step Fold Card

Well Nyoka, I finally did it! Thanks so much for the instructions. I have finally made a centre step fold card! And I must say I really liked making this kind of a card. It's actually easier for me to make a card covering lots of smaller panels than one big panel. I don't know why, it just is. Maybe because it makes it easier to place matching patterned papers. I guess I'll have to try a side step card next!

Card Details: Heidi Grace pps; Hero Arts bling; Memories ink, Offray ribbon, Fiskars border punch; Inkadinkado - sentiment stamp; Cake stamp - unknown; embellie - dollar store.

Mother's Day Card

I finally got around to making a Mother's Day card for my mil. This style of card is one of my favourites because there are so many panels to cover and have fun with. I hope my mil doesn't mind that I cheaped out on it though. The pp and glitter are from the dollar store, the pearl on the front was from an old necklace of my daughter's that she was going to throw away, and the wide ribbon was from a rak. Not bad eh?

Card Details: Stamps - Say It With Stamps (sentiment), Artemio (roses, leaves), Studio G (enjoy); MS butterfly punch; Versamark and Colourbox ink; Ranger Seafoam White EB powder; Recollections CS; pp and glitter - dollar store; ribbon - rak (wide), Ruban (blue), Oval Curvy Cutter, tag punch - unknown.

Thank You Card

I made this clean and simple card for a neighbour who did something nice for my youngest DS. I used the CB thank you die cut, and embossed the flowers with Spellbinders Impressibilities. I brushed Liquid Pearls on the embossed area to help it stand out, then distressed the edges, and voila...done! CS is Recollections (white) and Cricut Rainbow (blue). TFL